The Queen's Rebuke / The Crossing

Album: The Hazards Of Love (2009)
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Songfacts®:

  • On The Hazards of Love, different guest vocalists voice the individual characters in the song's storyline. On this song My Brightest Diamond's Shara Worden voices the jealous queen of a spooky forest who threatens the love between the tragic heroine Margaret and the shape-shifting forest dweller William.
  • The A.V.Club asked Colin Meloy if he wrote the songs for the females who guested on The Hazards of Love in their voice ranges. He replied: "Well, I didn't know their ranges well enough, and having never written for women before, it was all really guesswork, just assuming they were gonna have a far superior range than mine." He added: "Once I heard Shara sing, I was really intent on having them sing those songs, so I started writing out of my range, which was sort of a weird experience. And thankfully they were both willing and able to do the songs afterward. I don't know what we would've done otherwise, because I couldn't sing the songs"

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